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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Rainbow chard, also known a 5-color silverbeet, is a tender chard variety with multi-colored stalks of yellow, white, orange pink and red.
Grower
Seasons/Availability
Yellow Nectarines are available during summer months.
Current Facts
Fitz Kelly, grower and owner of Fitzgerald's Orchard located in Reedley, California, measures the sugar content of his fruits with a refractometer, an easy to use compact device about the size of a regular banana. In order to measure the sugar content of the fruit, the fruit’s juice is dripped onto a crystal compartment on the device. The juice is trapped between two pieces of crystal, reminiscent to slides used in labs. Holding and looking at the refractometer against bright sunlight, a visible scale indicates the sugar content of the fruit. Fitz Kelly demonstrated how to use the refractometer at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Measuring the sugar content of a white nectarine compared to a yellow nectarine, the white nectarine measured 12 while the yellow nectarine measured 18. Yellow nectarines actually have a higher sugar content, but white nectarines taste sweeter due to its lack of acid. The highest reading being 30, a fruit with a reading of 14 or above is considered excellent.
Description/Taste
Yellow nectarines are sweet and fruity with the perfect amount of acid, displaying the best flavor spectrum of not just a stone fruit but of all fruits.
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| Fitzgerald Farms |
Seasons/Availability
Yellow Nectarines are available during summer months.
Current Facts
Fitz Kelly, grower and owner of Fitzgerald's Orchard located in Reedley, California, measures the sugar content of his fruits with a refractometer, an easy to use compact device about the size of a regular banana. In order to measure the sugar content of the fruit, the fruit’s juice is dripped onto a crystal compartment on the device. The juice is trapped between two pieces of crystal, reminiscent to slides used in labs. Holding and looking at the refractometer against bright sunlight, a visible scale indicates the sugar content of the fruit. Fitz Kelly demonstrated how to use the refractometer at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Measuring the sugar content of a white nectarine compared to a yellow nectarine, the white nectarine measured 12 while the yellow nectarine measured 18. Yellow nectarines actually have a higher sugar content, but white nectarines taste sweeter due to its lack of acid. The highest reading being 30, a fruit with a reading of 14 or above is considered excellent.
Description/Taste
Yellow nectarines are sweet and fruity with the perfect amount of acid, displaying the best flavor spectrum of not just a stone fruit but of all fruits.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
| Cafe Chloe | San Diego CA | 619-232-3242 |
| La Villa | San Diego CA | 619 255 5544 |
| Cal A Vie | Vista CA | 760-945-2055 |
| Table 926 | San Diego CA | 858-539-0926 |
| The Elegant Truffle | San Diego CA | 619-222-1889 |
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Yellow Nectarines. One
is easiest, three is harder.
